A Virgin Civil Servant Is Reincarnated as a Trashy Character in a Otome Game, but Because He Doesn’t Make a Move Despite Being in an Otome Game, the Girls Treat Him Like a High-Class Catch and Aggressively Pursue Him
“A large number of elite monsters appeared in the forest where Elliott sama went, and we haven’t been able to contact him yet…”
Mary tapped me on the chest. It seemed that I had made her feel uneasy.
“But I believed that Elliott sama is alive… That’s why I came to the forest.”
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I received a message and left my maid’s work behind to come to the edge of the forest. The forest was already closed off, surrounded by the kingdom’s knights.
From this, I could tell that something serious was happening. I couldn’t help but ask a soldier if everything was okay, but he refused to answer a commoner.
“Are you… a relative of one of the children inside?”
An older woman approached me from behind. I didn’t have time to chat leisurely, but I knew there was no point in panicking.
“My son is inside too, and he hasn’t come back yet.”
She said that. Her face was twisted with fear. I probably looked the same. Right now, the only way to endure this was to share our anxiety with each other. Just as I was thinking that,
“The students are back!”
A voice rang out from near the forest. Immediately after that, several students came running out, out of breath. I was relieved. Everyone was safe. But I couldn’t see Elliott sama among them.
“Mom…!”
“I’m glad you’re back…”
Voices echoed from various places. Those voices stirred my heart even more. I thought about going into the forest many times. I was afraid that if the worst had happened, I would regret going into the forest.
However, about half of the students had not yet returned, and when I asked them, they said that they had split into two groups and gone into the forest. He must be there. That’s what I thought, but even when the other group returned, Elliott was nowhere to be found.
“You… haven’t found him yet?”
The woman from earlier spoke to me. She seemed to have found her son, and her tense expression from earlier had disappeared.
“…Yes. I believe Elliott is sama alive.”
“Hey, do you know a boy named Elliott?”
When the woman said that to her son, he grimaced. After a moment of awkward silence, he said, with a pained expression on his face.
“He stayed behind in the forest to buy us time.”
Those words didn’t sound like something you would say to a hero who stayed behind in the forest. They sounded more like something you would say to someone who died in vain, and I was overcome with emotion and began to cry.
“Elliott sama is safe, right?”
“I don’t know… but he didn’t seem to have given up.”
With those words, the mother and son disappeared somewhere, looking embarrassed. There were only a few people left who were still waiting for them to return.
The people around looked as if they had given up.
“This school is finished. With people dead, there’s no way to cover it up.”
I could hear the voices of heartless onlookers. I wanted to slit that man’s throat with the survival knife at my waist so that he would never be able to speak again, but I refrained from doing so.
That’s because it seemed that Elliott sama had decided not to come back.
I waited there for about an hour. It seemed that the soldiers were about to break their encirclement.
I saw two people walking out of the forest carrying someone. Both of them were girls, but I recognized the boy they were carrying.
“Eh, Elliott…-sama!”
I jumped over the soldiers’ encirclement and ran. To Elliott-sama. And when I made eye contact with him, I made up my mind. If something like this happens again, I definitely want to be by his side.
That’s why I decided to transfer to their class.